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GAR ROOFING.

N0. 292,675; Patented Jam-29,1884.

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WILLIAM H. PAIGE, or CLEVELAND, orno.

CAR-ROOFING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,675, dated January 29, 1854.

I0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W'ILLIAM H. PAIGE, of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gar-Roofing, of which the following is a specification.

My improvements consist in the peculiar construction and arrangement of prepared paper, or paper material, in combination with the carlincs, purlines, ridge-plate, and outer and inner wooden roofing for railway-cars, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is -a perspectix e view of the roof of a car having portions of the outer roof broken away or removed, showing one method of constructing and-applying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a detached view of paper material, showing the same prepared for laying. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a car-roof having outer roof removed, showing amodified method of laying and se-- curing the paper material. Fig. isacross: section of the car-roof shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an end view of paper material, showing manner of laying, lapping, and joining the side edges of the sheets to one another and the roof. P i

A in Fig. 1 represents the rafters, and B the purlines, of a car. Over the rafters are laid sheets of prepared paper, 0. The prepared paper (the preparation of which is given in my patent of October 30, 1883, No. 287,459) I make with corrugations c at the side edges and through the center, for the purpose of enabling the sheets to be laid and secured without nailing through the paper, and thereby. avoiding making any holes through it, and preventing the liability of leakage from that source.

Another object in making corrugations in the sheets is principally to give the sheets freedom to yield to the expansion and contraction from heat and cold, which affects car-roofs, and which, in metal roofs, renders them liable to crack or break, thereby. in-

This cannot be the case in a roof having my improved paper material applied. These sheets may be long enough to extend over the roof from one side to the other, thus avoiding ajoint or lapping at the ridge, and facilitating laying them.

Over the sheets 0 are laid purlines D, hav- Appliention filed October 1, 1883. (No model.)

is made, like the purlines D, with support.

ing-blocks e, which fit over the ridge of the car. These serve also to hold down the sheets.

The outer roof-boards are secured to this ridge-piece E, and above the outer roof are placed block's f, which support a run-board, F, over all. At the caves of the car'are attached blocks g, outside of which are secured molding-pieces G, to the top edge of which the lower ends of the outer roof-boards are secured. This leaves an open air-space be tween the paper roofing and the outer roof= boards. Under the corrugations are placed half-round wooden strips h, which support them and preserve theircurvature.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the paper is represented as laid on a wooden ceiling supported by ordi nary ridge-piece and purlines.

Having described my improvements, I

gated at c by means of said strips h, and the purlines D, having blocks (1 at suitable intervals apart, whereby said paper is held firmly, as shown and described.

5'. In a car-roof, the combination, with the rafters A, purlines B, semicircular strips h, sheets of paper 0, corrugated at c by means of said strips, and the purlines-D, having blocks (7. at suitable intervals apart, of the ridge-piece E, having corresponding blocks, e, to those of the purlines D, and the-run-board F, resting over said ridge-piece by means of the molding G, secured to the blocks wherethe end blocks, f, as set forth. by air-spaces are formed, as set forth.

6. The combination with the car-roof hav- T I 1 7 ing the sheets of paper 0, the pin-lines D, hav- ILLIUI I 5 ing blocks (1, and the ridge-pieceE, having eor- \Vilnesses:

responding blocks to those of the purlines D, I GEO. \V. Tmm'r'rs, of thespaccdhleck y, secnredt'o the caves, and l M. G. XOR'IOX. 

